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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The question is "When is video a good. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? What do you think?

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Vicky has written a brilliant post answering the question "How do you write for your blog?" I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. In yet another example of the connectedness of the Web2.0,

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